I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.
NASI think I’ve had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records.
More Nas Quotes
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Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.
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The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new – that’s what New York is about… New.
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I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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I’m smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I’m smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Anybody I’m dating, I don’t want them to talk about my music. I don’t talk about my music to them.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
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Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you’re happy… Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.
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You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
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I don’t get jealousy, I don’t get how people hate each other – I never did.
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